Not only is this editorial opinion from the grubby, fascistic National Post, it's editorial opinion written by George bloody Jonas.
I don't actually get Fox news, so I can't offer an informed opinion on which is worse in this case. I'd venture to guess that George would end up on the right end of Fox News.
In all seriousness. If someone pasted a passage from the editorializing of Rush Limbaugh here and agreed with it, might the suspicion meters of other posters not go up a little?
The fact that nobody here knows who George Jonas is (and I know that younger Canadians, too, are probably not too familiar with him or his charming ex-wife, Babs "I had an abortion but it was wrong and nobody else must be allowed to" Amiel ... now Lady Black, being married to Lord Conrad Black, the founder of the National Post, himself) doesn't mean that he is a more appropriate source of opinion worth reading.
Here's one fun commentary (by a writer from the "conservative" Globe and Mail) about George:
http://www.snappingturtle.net/flit/archives/2002_09_16.html(That site seems to be a buggeration of a thing; try
google's cached version)
And here's something from the Globe itself:
http://friendscb.ca/articles/GlobeandMail/globe030123.htm"It's not Canadians who've gone to the right, just their media"
Sound familiar to our USAmerican friends?
Take Canada's two national papers, which drive much of the news agenda. The National Post is so American it should come in a holster. <I can't resist - hahahahahaha!> Most of its commentators – David Frum, Mark Steyn, Andrew Coyne, George Jonas, Christie Blatchford, Robert Fulford, Elizabeth Nickson, Hugo Gurdon, Terence Corcoran – slant right. The Post, like The Globe and Mail, is a high-quality product. Not every staff member was born in Texas. There are some other perspectives from middle-of-the-road columnists as well as weekly contributors. But there is not one full-time left-of-centre political columnist.
With a wealth of freelance contributions and with columnists such as Rick Salutin, The Globe makes a greater effort to be balanced and finds a bigger audience. But the odds against the left seem stacked at this paper, too. I count two full-time right-wing columnists: Margaret Wente and John Ibbitson, and four others of that ilk – Marcus Gee, William Thorsell, Drew Fagan and Norman Spector – writing columns on a less frequent basis. There are two staff centrists, Jeffrey Simpson and Hugh Winsor, and one left-leaning centrist, Paul Knox, who writes a column once a week. Jim Stanford and Naomi Klein write occasionally, but there is not one full-time columnist holding up the left-of-centre banner.
In a middle-of-the-road country that elects Liberals as its natural governing party, it is indeed strange when the right has such preponderant weight in political commentary at the national papers.
... Canadians, as opinion samplings suggest, haven't migrated rightward in big numbers, only their printing presses. It is a question of balance, and the balance – does the NDP have a chance in this media environment? – is gone. The impact on traditional Canadian values can only be corrosive.
So quelle surprise that a Post columnist would write what is quoted here.
Here's another tidbit from that article:
Witness Defence Minister John McCallum and his suggestion that Canada might fight a war alongside the United States even if the United Nations did not find reason for one. The media applauded the sentiment. As for Canadians themselves, a poll was taken: A piddling 15 per cent favoured such an option.
George Jonas would be among that 15%. And that 15% would pretty much NOT be what ya'd call "liberal", even by USAmerican standards.
So why the hell would anybody here even be interested in what he has to say about firearms in Canada?
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